The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-17

In CHANcERY OF NEW JERsEY-Between
Daniel D. Briant, complainant, and
Elisha Skellenger and Elias B
Skellenger, defendants. Fl. ia. for sale
Of mortgaged premises returnable to
February Term, A. D. 1888.
j. ID. NEIGHBOUR, Sol'r
By virtue of the above stated writ of
sale at public vendue at the Court House
in Morristown, N. j., on
Monday, the 10th day of January
next, A. D. 1888, between the hours Of 70
M and 5 O'Clock p. M, that is to say at 2
o'clock in the afternoon of said day all
| those three tracts or parcels of land and
premises hereinafter particularly describ-
| ed situate, lying and being in the town.
ship of Chester, in the county of Morris
and State of New Jersey, commonly called
Kelsey, Bird and Swasey tracts and
bounded as follows: The Kelsey tract be-
ginning near certain brook that former
| " divided Roxbury from Mendham at a
heap of stones standing on the south side
| of the road that used to lead by Joanna
| Pickles widow, or where Barnabas Hor-
tor, deceased. formerly lived and runs
| thence on the south side of said
road westerly eleven chains to a
heap of stones for corner, thence
south sixty-four degrees east about
enc hundred rods, to another road that
used to lead from James Lewis's to Rich
ard Loyeridge, and from thence to run
northwesterly along the westerly side of
said road to certain building that had
been used for a wheelswright shop that
used to stand on the premises, thence to
run north sixty-four degrees west to the
first mentioned corner supposed to contain
eighteen acres of land more or less, (2).
The Bird tract beginning at heap Of
stones lying on the south-easI side of the
road that used to lead from Nathan Hor-
toms to Barnabas Horizons supposed to be
the road that now leads from Chester to
Calais, it being the most nnrtherly corner
of that tract of land that BENJAMIN Bird
purchased of the executors of Elijah Hor>
ton, deceased. being also corner Of Bar
nabas Horizons other land, thence running
from said heap of stones ~, south fifty
twenty links to small chestnut sappling,
thence (2) south seventy one degrees west
three chains to heap of stones on the
Esoutheast side OF the aforesaid road;
thence 81 south sixty~four degrees east
forty>one chains and seventy>seven links
to heap of stones Ill the brook, thence
| IA north hfty-hve degrees east, fourteen
chains to the road lat used to lead from
Richard Loveridge's to Barnabas Horton,
deceased, BH0uCC AOlbu, IOTby degrees
and fifteen minutes west, seven chains
and eighty links to the corner of said
Barnabas Horizons other land; thence (6),
north, sixty-four degrees west. thirty ~one
chains and ninety-four links to the place
of beginning, containing sixty-one acres
strict measure. (Third), the Sweasey tract,
beginning at heap of stones, being a
corner of Phineas Horton and Joseph
Hedden's land, and runs from thence III.
south, forty~seven degrees west, three
chains, thence "a south. sixty>four de-
grees east, six chains and sixty links !,
thence ~ north fifty degrees east, three
chains; thence (4) south, sixty>four de>
grees east, thirty -four chains; thence 5),
north twenty-seven degrees east, sixteen
chains and sixty links; thence (6), north
sixty-fonr degrees west, thirty-two chains;
thence ID south ffty>two degrees vest,
eighteen chains to the place of beginning,
containing sixty~hve acres of land, be the
same more or less, and the three afore
mentioned tracts are bound north by
lands of Phineas Horton. Joseph Hedden,
and the road leading from Chester to
Calais, east by the road leading from Sue
casunna Plains, and south by lands of
Robert Hnghson, and west by lands of
Jonah Horton and Phineas Horton.
Excepting and reserving there out one
uarter of an acre of land on the cross
road near Stryker's store, heretofore sold
to Ogden Hugo.
IRA W. CORY, Sheriff.
Dated December 8, 1887. STA 40